By an 11-1 vote, the jury who convicted Kenneth Smith — who's set to be executed tonight — didn't recommend death. 'If we trust our juries, we must trust Smith’s jury,' columnist JohnArchibald writes. 'And that means we can’t just quietly watch him die.'
She overrode the 11-1 recommendation, a power that was legal then but has since been banned. She sentenced Smith to die.
Even Alabama politicians realized it was unjust and archaic. Both GOP-dominated houses of the legislature overwhelmingly voted to outlaw judicial override in death penalty cases in 2017. Gov. Kay Ivey signed the ban into law. So now more than 30 people in Smith’s circumstance sit on death row waiting to die. Legal arguments are made and courts rule and people still die. Even though our lawmakers and governor – and those in every other state in the union – have decided it is wrong.If we trust our juries, we must trust Smith’s jury. And that means we can’t just quietly watch him die.
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